What We're Reading: Laurie

Lips Touch: three times by Laini Taylor

Three beautifully written novellas that all deal with the common theme of a kiss. In Goblin Fruit, Kizzy, a girl who is a social misfit, meets a gorgeous new boy at school. He pays attention to her and befriends her over the more popular girls in her class. Kizzy is immediately smitten with the new boy and wonders what their future holds. Spicy Little Curses Such As These tells the story of a girl who is cursed at birth and falls in love with a soldier as a young woman. She struggles with the validity of the curse and the strong feelings she has for the man she believes to be her soul mate. Hatchling reveals a world full of immortals who raise human babies as pets. On Esme's fourteenth birthday, her left eye turns from brown to blue, and Esme encounters a man who introduces her into the world her mother has been trying to shelter her from her entire life. Di Bartolo's hauntingly gorgeous illustrations add depth and dimension to these stories.